Job 17:6 - Tree of Life Version

⁶ He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face people spit.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ He hath made me also a byword of the people; And aforetime I was as a tabret.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ But He has made me a byword among the people, and they spit before my face.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

Common English Bible

⁶ He makes me a popular proverb; I’m like spit in people’s faces.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ He has posted me like a proverb to the people, and I am an example in their presence.

Job 17:6 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 31:27

Why did you secretly flee away, and steal from me? Why didn’t you tell me, so I could send you away with joy and with songs, with tambourines and with lyres?

1 Kings 9:7

then will I cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and this House which I have consecrated for My Name, I will cast out of My sight. So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Job 12:4

“I have become a laughingstock to my friend, though I called on God and He answered— a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!

Job 17:2

Surely mockers are with me, my eyes must gaze on their hostility.

Job 30:10

They despise me; they keep their distance from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

Job 30:9

“So now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword to them.

Psalm 44:14

You made us a taunt for our neighbors, a scorn and ridicule for those around us.

Psalm 44:15

You have made us a byword among the nations, head-wagging among the peoples.

Psalm 69:11

When I wept and fasted— that became a reproach to me.

Isaiah 5:12

Harp and lyre, tambourine and flute, and wine are at their banquets. They do not notice Adonai’s activity nor see the works of His hands.

Numbers 12:14

Adonai said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not be in shame for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days. After that she may be brought back.”